Student Research Projects
Several student projects are current underway, including:
- Development of new infrared photographic methods for resolving prehistoric rock art (Western Europe)
- Studying mortuary practices and human skeletal remains to reveal emerging social stratification at the prehistoric Donnaha site (North Carolina).
- Using flaked stone tools to determine prehistoric activities at a 23,000 year old campsite in Portugal.
- Analysis of pre-Columbian artifacts from pre-TaÍno sites on south coast of Puerto Rico.
- Analysis of artifacts from an early-eighteenth-century Spanish colonial plantation in Puerto Rico, including items pirated into the country through illicit trade networks.
- Carolyn Conklin, supported by a Richter Research Fellowship conducted a study entitled Social Interaction and Regional Exchange in Late Bronze Age, Portugal: Stylistic Analysis of Decorated Ceramics at Castro de Sao Martinho.
- Mapping of Castro do Sao Martinho, Rio Maior, Portugal - Lance Holly is preparing an honor's thesis on the mapping of this 12th century hill fort overlooking the towns of Rio Maior and Alcobertas, Portugal.
